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B. TYMESON. MOQUETTB PABRIO.

No. 529,635. Patented Nov. 20, 1894.

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EUGENE TYMESON, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO WARREN SMITH, OF SAME PLACE.

MOQUETTE FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,635, dated November 20, 1894.

Application filecl my 26, 1893- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE TYMESON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yonkers, county of Westchester, and State of New York, having invented certain new and useful Improvements in Moquette Fabrics, fully described and represented in. the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to tufted fabrics of that class of which the fabric now known as Moquette carpet is an example, this carpet having a body of Warp and weft threads of suitable material, usually jute or hemp, and a face consisting of rows of tufts of wool inserted into the body during the formation of the latter, and secured by the weft threads, as distinguished from out pile fabrics in which the face is formed by looping the continuous pile material and trimming ofi the outer ends of the loops to form the cut face. 7

Various modes of manufacturing this carpet have been used, but in all there have been used a shot of weft or filling passing through each row oftufts, one or more wefts below each row of tufts binding the row on the weft passing through the latter, and oneor more wefts between each two rows of tufts.

One-of the most common modes of manufacturing this carpet has been to use a coarse filling, one shot passing through the row of tufts, a second shot underlying this, and'a arating this row of tufts from the next. This mode of weaving, however, produces a coarse fabric and it is evident that three shots of filling are made to each row of tufts.

Another method employed is to use two sizes of filling, a fine filling through the tufts and coarser filling grouped below and about the row of tufts to hold it in place. In this case, also, a shot of filling is used between each two rows of tufts, and, as in the previous case, the number of shots of filling required makes the fabric coarse and limits the speed at which it can be produced.

The present invention, however,'provides an improved carpet possessing important advantages over those heretofore produced and which may be made of a finer weave-and at a higher rate of speed than previous carpets of this class. This result is obtained by com- SerialNoA81-494. (No model.)

bining with the warp a,filling composed of only two shots for each row of tufts, a holding shot passing through the row and a binding shot underlying the row. By thus using but two'shots of filling to each row of tnfts,I not only increase largely the speed at which the carpet may be produced, but am enabled proved carpet they are hardly noticeable."

Another important advantage is that the warps may be weighted very nearly alike in weaving, so that there is little crimping of any of the warp threads and the fabric does not ravel when out, as easily as in previous fabrics of this class. In practice it has been found preferable to arrange the warps insets of four at short intervals apart across the fabric, and to use two warps in each set of four as dividing warps which lie between the upper and lower wefts of each pair, and the othertwo of each set of four warps as binding warps passing alternately above and below the wefts of each pair so as to bind them and the dividing warps together, the binding warps being reversed between each two pairs of wefts.

As a full understanding of the invention can bestbe given by an illustration and description of the improved fabric, there is shown in the'accompanying drawings a portion of a fabric embodying the invention in the preferred form, the body of the fabric being shown open to separate the threads for the purpose of illustration, it being understood, however, that in practice, the filling is driven up by the lay of the loom so as to force the filling and tufts together and make a solid fabric.

In the drawingsw-Figures l and 2 are sections of the fabric taken respectively longitudinally of and transversely to the warps, part of the fabric being shown with the tufts removed, the direction of movement of the warps in weaving being shown by the arrow in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the fabric with the tufts removed.

a, a represent the binding warps, h, 1) the dividing warps, c, a respectively the tuft holding and tuft binding wefts, and d the tufts, all these being shown as of somewhat more than actual size of common carpet. The warps are each preferably quite small as shown, and are arranged in sets of four at short distances apart transversely of the fabric. The binding warps a, a. pass alternately above and below the wefts c, c of each pair and are reversed between each two pairs, while the dividing warps b, I) extend through the fabric between the wefts c, c of each pair. The tufts d are carried by the upper tuft holding wefts c and each row of tufts is bound in place thereon by the tuft binding weft c, and each tuft is bound at the sides by the warps be:

tween which the tufts are inserted.

The general operation of weaving the fabric will be understood by those skilled in the art without detailed explanation, the operations being as follows:A binding weft having been inserted and beaten up by the lay a row of tufts is inserted, then the warp shifted and a tuft holding weft inserted. The ends of the tufts are then looped about the tuft holding weft, the Warp again shifted and the tuft binding weftinserted and beaten up after which the next row of tufts is inserted and the operation repeated, the shifting of the j a power loom is claimed in another applica- 1 tion, Serial No. 481,495, filed July 26, 1893.

It will be understood that by the term Moquette fabrics I mean and intend to cover all carpets or other fabrics having rows of separate and independent tufts inserted in the body, but I do not mean to include therein pile fabrics in which the face is formed of a series of loops in continuous strands of pile material, nor that class of fabrics in which the face is formed by inserting a weft strand carrying a row of tufts attached thereto.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that changes may be made in thearrangement of the warps relatively to each other and to the wefts without departing from the invention, and that I am not to be limited to the exact construction shown.

What is claimed is-- 1. A Moquette fabric having a suitable body of warp strands, and rows of tufts inserted therein, and having two wefts for each row of tufts, one of said two wefts for each row of tufts passing through the row and forming a holding weft, and the other lying against the ing a body of warps a portion of said warps passing alternately above and below the wefts and forming binding warps, and a portion of the warps passing between the wefts and forming dividing warps, substantially as described.

3. AMoquette fabric having abody of warp strands arranged in groups at suitable distances apart and rows of tufts inserted between said groups of warp strands, and having two wefts for each row of tufts, one of said two wefts for each row of tufts passing through the row and forming a holding weft, and the other lying against the row of tufts against said holding weft and forming a bind ing weft, substantially as described.

4. A Moquette fabric having a row of tufts for each two wefts, one of said two wefts for each row of tufts passing through the row and forming a holding weft, and the other lying against the row of tufts upon said holding weft and forming a binding weft, and having a body of warps arranged in groups at vsuitable distances apart between which the tufts are inserted, a portion of said warps passing alternately above and below the wef ts and forming binding warps, and a portion of the warps passing between the wefts and forming dividing warps, substantially as described.

5. A Moquette fabric having a suitable body of warp strands and rows of tufts inserted lbetween said warp strands and projecting 3 through the body at. the back of the fabric,

and having two wefts for each row of tufts, one of said two wefts for each row of tufts passing through the row and forminga holding weft, and the other lying against the row of tufts against said holding weft and forminga binding weft,substantially as described.

6. A Moquette fabric consistingof a suitable body of warp strands, rows of tufts, said rows being inserted separately and independently of each other, and two wefts for each row of tufts, one of said two wefts for each row of tufts passing through the row and forming a holding weft, and the other lying against the row of tufts upon said holding weft and forming a binding weft, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EUGENE TYMESON. Witnesses:

C. J. SAWYER, GEORGE H. Borrs.

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